Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Another great gone. Dame Maggie Smith aged 89 https://news.sky.com/story/maggie-smith-known-for-her-roles-in-harry-potter-and-downton-abbey-has-died-13223024
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted September 27, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 27, 2024 16 minutes ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said: Another great gone. Dame Maggie Smith aged 89 https://news.sky.com/story/maggie-smith-known-for-her-roles-in-harry-potter-and-downton-abbey-has-died-13223024 She looked 89 33 years ago. Great actress, great body of work. Good innings though.
d-d-d-dAz Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Good swing of the bat or not, that's a huge cultural figure taken off the board. Her death feels 'significant' in a broader context. I always feel bad for the family members of people like this who die, as it doesn't really feel like a 'personal' loss, it feels like a shared one. Which must be terribly frustrating when you're grieving.
Paid Members Carbomb Posted September 27, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 27, 2024 (edited) It definitely feels like the end of an era. She's one of those people who's always been around, so it feels weird that she's finally gone. One of the true greats; one of those artists who had so many hits, you couldn't just point to one thing as being her indisputably best role. RIP. Edited September 27, 2024 by Carbomb
DavidB6937 Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 16 minutes ago, d-d-d-dAz said: I always feel bad for the family members of people like this who die, as it doesn't really feel like a 'personal' loss, it feels like a shared one. Which must be terribly frustrating when you're grieving. Depends on how they look at it I guess. I imagine for some there's immense comfort in knowing how loved they were and how much they'll be missed, but we all take things in different ways.
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted September 27, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 27, 2024 She'd been in some huge movies and shows. 89 is a decent innings. It's a heck of a loss to the British entertainment industry.
davertfnewman Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Possibly not her biggest film, but the thing I default to thinking of her in is A Room with a View, which I studied as a sixth former. Book was alright at that age, film was better, but she was far and away the best part of it as the overbearing, moralistic aunt.
Paid Members Scratch Posted September 27, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 27, 2024 My wife has been upstairs in bed ill all day, I’ve heard nothing from her until she shouted “McGonagall’s died” about 30 minutes ago. They don’t come much bigger than Maggie Smith, one of the few remaining greats. A huge loss.
Paid Members Carbomb Posted September 27, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 27, 2024 13 minutes ago, davertfnewman said: Possibly not her biggest film, but the thing I default to thinking of her in is A Room with a View For me, it's as Thetis in Clash of the Titans.
Dr. Alan Grant Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Granny Wendy in Hook is my go-to memory for Maggie Smith. She looked about 90 then, so I assume she had a hell of a lot of makeup on. Murder By Death as well. Cracking film, that one.
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 29, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 29, 2024 This is really shit. Gives me my regular reminder to everyone to watch Midnight Run. We're losing too many great old character actors now, it's really sad.
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted September 30, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 30, 2024 Kris Kristoferson died today aged 88. Saw him in Convoy about 4 times at the cinema, then about 100 times after that as it was one of the the first videos my Dad rented when we got our first player.
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted September 30, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 30, 2024 That leaves Willie Nelson as the last of The Highwaymen.
SaitoRyo Posted September 30, 2024 Posted September 30, 2024 Damn, that's a gut punch to wake up to. I love Kris Kristofferson. His music, his acting and, well, just him. He was such a good songwriter. Sunday Morning Coming Down, The Pilgrim (Chapter 33), The Taker etc. Few could write like him and he had such a distinctive style. Those early albums were so fucking great. Wasn't as consistent during the late 70s and 80s, but there's still some gems there and he was making good enjoyable records into the 2000s. As far as acting, obviously Convoy, but also Cisco Pike, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, A Star is Born, Flashpoint, Lone Star, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid... Lots of stories about him being a genuinely good guy as well. The moment he comforted Sinead O'Connor after MSG booed her out of the building (days after the SNL picture-tearing incident) sticks out. Just an absolute fucking legend. RIP.
Paid Members Statto Posted September 30, 2024 Paid Members Posted September 30, 2024 Likewise, gutted to wake up to that news. No-one wrote like Kris, probably because most people writing country music hadn't gone to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship to study English literature. At the risk of sounding like that poster who claimed to have just been watching a match of whatever obscure wrestler had just died, about 7pm last night I realised I'd done no guitar practice yet, picked up my guitar, and felt compelled to pick my way through one of the greatest songs ever written:
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